101 Best Quotes on Happiness

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If there’s one thing we like to be here at PoP, it’s HAPPY! So today, we wanted to share 101 of our absolute favorite quotes on happiness. Not only are we sharing our favorites, we’re putting a cherry on top with a special GIVEAWAY of “Everyday Positive Thoughts” by Louise Hay at the bottom of this post! So read through the quotes, pick your favorite, and enter to win!

“Happiness runs in a circular motion” – Donovan

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – Gandhi

“Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.” – Zig Ziglar

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama

“Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.” – Unknown

“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.” – Albert Camus

“If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap.’ If you want happiness for a day — go fishing. If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else.” – Chinese Proverb

“The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.” – Ashley Montagu

“Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can’t love and respect yourself – no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are – completely; the good and the bad – and make changes as YOU see fit – not because you think someone else wants you to be different.” – Stacey Charter

“It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about” – Dale Carnegie

“It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.” – Lucille Ball

“Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.” – Winnie the Pooh

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” – Epictetus

“We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.” – Frederick Keonig

“Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.” – Eskimo Proverb

“To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.” – Mary Stuart

“There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.” – Seneca

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” – Robert A. Heinlein

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Herman Cain

“There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.” – Anthony de Mello

“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle

“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.” – Marcel Pagnol

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” – George Burns

“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Happiness is acceptance.” – Unknown

“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.” – James M. Barrie

“We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one’s own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.” – Dalai Lama

“Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.” – Dr. Robert Anthony

“The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.” – Aesop

“For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.” – Seneca

“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?” – Albert Einstein

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.” – Bertrand Russell

“Happiness is a state of activity.” – Aristotle

“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.” – Arthur Schopenhauer

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

“Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.” – Friedrich Schiller

“I’d far rather be happy than right any day.” – Douglas Adams

“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.” – Andy Rooney

“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.” – Benjamin Disraeli

“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.” – Martha Washington

“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.” – Albert Schweitzer

“Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.” – Heraclitus

“Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.” – Herman Hesse

“Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don’t even remember leaving open.” – Rose Lane

“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself; I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.” – Groucho Marx

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.” – Maxim Gorky

“A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one’s neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.” – Leo Tolstoy

“If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.” – Epicurus

“Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.” – William Feather

“For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you don’t enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you’re not going to be very happy. If someone bases his/her happiness on major events like a great job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn’t going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.” – Andy Rooney

“The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.” – Brian Tracy

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust

“Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.” – Mary Lou Retton

“I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.” – Dalai Lama

“Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.” – Joseph Campbell

“Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.” – Leo Tolstoy

“I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.” – Martha Washington

“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” ~ Helen Keller

“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” – Buddha

“Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.” – Norman Vincent Peale

“Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth.” – Pharrell Williams

“Remember happiness is a way of travel, not a destination” – Roy Goodman

“Happiness does not depend on what you have, where you are, or who you are. Happiness depends only upon your thoughts.” – Kristen Butler

“Happiness adds and multiplies as we divide it with others.” – A. Nielsen

“Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.” – Jim Rohn

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.” – Aurelius, Marcus

“I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.” – Richard Bach

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Shweitzer

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss

“If you want to be happy, be.” – Leo Tolstoy

“Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars… Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become presidents and they are not going to become rich. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are.” – Osho

“Laugh when you can, apologize when you should, and let go of what you can’t change. Kiss slowly, play hard, love deeply, forgive quickly, take chances, give everything, and have no regrets. Life is too short to be anything but happy.” – Unknown

“I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.” – Kurt Vonnegut

“If you think sunshine brings you happiness, then you haven’t danced in the rain.” – Unknown

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” – Albert Camus

“Sing like no one’s listening, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like nobody’s watching, and live like its heaven on earth.” – Mark Twain

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” – Albert Einstein

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson “Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” – Robert Heinlein

“We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.” – Frederick Keonig

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” – Victor Hugo

Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.” – Storm Jameson

“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you” – Nathaniel Hawthorne

“To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.” – Robert Muller

“No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.” – Barbara De Angelis

“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.” – Agnes Repplier

“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln

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